engulfing

英 [ɪnˈɡʌlfɪŋ]

美 [ɪnˈɡʌlfɪŋ]

v.  包围; 吞没; 淹没; 严重影响
engulf的现在分词

COCA.43887

柯林斯词典

• VERB （常指突然）吞没，吞噬
  If one thingengulfsanother, it completely covers or hides it, often in a sudden and unexpected way.
  1. A seven-year-old boy was found dead after a landslide engulfed a block of flats...
     山体滑坡掩埋了一栋公寓楼，造成一名7岁男孩丧生。
  2. The flat is engulfed in flames.
     那套公寓被火焰吞噬。
• VERB 使陷入（某种感觉或情绪）
  If a feeling or emotionengulfsyou, you are strongly affected by it.
  1. ...the pain that engulfed him...
     将他吞噬的苦痛
  2. He looked around his dark, cluttered office and was engulfed by a feeling of emptiness.
     他环顾自己昏暗杂乱的办公室，陷入一阵空虚之中。

双语例句

• The British parliament is holding a rare emergency debate on Wednesday on the scandal engulfing the media group News International.
  英国议会在周三罕见的召开紧急辩论，讨论新闻国际集团（NewsInternational）的丑闻问题。
• The technological revolution now engulfing the modern world has penetrated almost all aspects of daily life.
  科技革命支配整个现代社会，也渗入我们日常生活里几乎每一环节。
• A photographer had fused the lights, engulfing the entire house darkness.
  一位摄影师把电灯的保险丝烧断了，使整栋房子陷于黑暗当中。
• The crisis engulfing Toyota deepened yesterday when the US government urged the owners of more than 2m recalled cars and trucks to stop driving them and take them to dealers for repair.
  丰田汽车（Toyota）的危机昨日进一步加剧，美国政府敦促200多万辆被召回轿车和卡车的车主停止驾驶这些车辆，并将其送往经销商处维修。
• The bribery allegations engulfing Siemens, the German industrial group, provide one recent high-profile example.
  涉及德国工业集团西门子（siemens）的行贿指控，提供了一个引人注目的最新例证。
• Progress toward these noble goals is persistently threatened by the conflict now engulfing the world.
  向着这些崇高目标的进程一直受到席卷全球的冲突的威胁。
• Hurricanes do not keep engulfing New York.
  飓风不会一直肆虐纽约。
• A spat between eurozone governments and the International Monetary Fund has underlined the scale of the economic crisis still engulfing Greece.
  欧元区各国政府与国际货币基金组织（imf）的争执突显出希腊经济危机的严重性。
• The yen staged an extraordinary surge yesterday, rising on a flight to safety by investors as the crisis engulfing global financial markets intensified.
  在席卷全球金融市场的危机加剧之际，投资者纷纷寻求安全的投资，导致日元昨日大幅飙升。
• Congressional probes of multiple scandals engulfing the Obama administration are continuing.
  国会对奥巴马政府的多个丑闻调查仍在继续。